The Free Software Category Archive

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October 2nd, 2009

Scribus – Open Source Desktop Publishing DTP Software

Scribus is an Open Source Desktop Publishing (DTP) software that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. It has the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, like

CMYK Color
ICC Color Management
Separations
Spot [...]

August 24th, 2009

WordWeb – Free English Thesaurus Dictionary Download

WordWeb is a comprehensive one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. It can be used to look up words from almost any program, showing definitions, synonyms and related words. It includes pronunciations and usage examples, and has helpful spelling and sounds-like links.
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August 14th, 2009

Freemind – Mind Mapping Software Plugins from Sourceforge

FreeMind is a free mind mapping application written in Java. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License and runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux and MacOS X via Java Runtime Environment (JRE). FreeMind uses the Swing GUI toolkit for Java.
FreeMind allows the user to edit a hierarchical set of ideas around a central concept. [...]

August 14th, 2009

IrfanView – Free Image Editing Software

IrfanView is a favorite image viewer and editor because it is simple, fast, and free for individual use. The application lets you open and edit images, as well as multiple media formats. You can do the following things easily with IrfanView image editing software.

Cut And Crop Images
Apply Batch Conversions
Add Image
Sharpen Image
Blur Effects
Create Panoramas
Change Color Modes

Download [...]

August 10th, 2009

GIMP Image Editor – Free Photoshop Replacement

GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor that could be seen as replacement for Adobe Photoshop. Primarily, GIMP is used as a tool for photo manipulations, such as

Resizing
Editing
Cropping Photos
Combining Multiple Images
Converting Between Different Image Formats

GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.
Features of [...]

August 10th, 2009

Dia – Drawing Tool for Network UML and ER Diagrams

Dia is free software /open source general-purpose diagramming software , developed as part of the GNOME project’s office suite and was originally created by Alexander Larsson. Dia uses a controlled single document interface (CSDI) similar to GIMP.
Dia has a modular design with several shape packages available for different needs:

Flowchart
Network Diagrams
Circuit Diagrams

It does not restrict symbols [...]

August 10th, 2009

eMule P2P File Sharing Client Download

What is eMule?
eMule is a computer program that you can use to download all types of Internet content.
eMule runs on all versions of Windows released after Windows 95. If you have Windows Vista, it is recommended that you always use the latest eMule release.
eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer -to-peer file [...]